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Free Africa Foundation president speaks, Dec. 13

Posted December 7, 2005; 12:30 p.m.

by Ruth Stevens

George Ayittey, president of the Free Africa Foundation, will
lecture on "Africa Unchained" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, in 16
Robertson Hall.

The Washington, D.C.-based foundation was formed to help empower Africans to devise solutions to the continent's problems.

A native of Ghana, Ayittey also is a Distinguished Economist in
Residence at American University and the author of "Africa Unchained:
The Blueprint for Africa's Future." The book, published this year,
focuses on how Africa can modernize, build and improve its institutions
through expansion of the country's traditions of free markets and free
trade.

Ayittey also has written "Indigenous African Institutions"; "Africa
Betrayed,” which won the 1993 H.L. Mencken Award for Best Book for
1992; "The Blueprint For Ghana's Economic Recovery"; and "Africa In
Chaos." He has testified several times before U.S. Congressional
committees about the Third World debt crisis, foreign aid to Africa and
apartheid in South Africa.